Southern Arkansas University Blackboard Support

Date criteria enable content to be displayed according to date and time. Content may be displayed after a specific date, until a specific date, or within a time frame. For example, the Instructor may use the date criteria to release lecture notes only after the lecture has occurred or the date criteria option could be used to give one Group, such as Students with learning disabilities, more time to access content than another Group would receive.

Dates for availability may be set when the item is created or edited under options or through a Date criteria rule. The Instructor may decide to use both the date restrictions on the Edit page and the Date criteria rule. For example, the item can be made available on the Edit page from December 1- December 30. Then the item may be made available to one small group of users from December 1 - December 15 and another small group of users from December 16 - December 30.

Note: If the date is changed on the item itself, for example on the Edit Item page, and date criteria already exist, a warning message appears. The same is true if the user attempts to add date criteria and a date for the item has been set on the Add or Edit page. 

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